To run a home with four school-going children can be taxing. It is not easy because you have four different personalities with different needs. One has to set their priorities in such a way that they are able to manage get the children ready for school on time, uniforms and all, especially if the children all have to go in the morning (in Zambia, where I grew up, children go at 07:00am, at 10:30am and at 13:30)
So the situation I am presenting comes from the experience I had with my own four children in Zambia (Central-Southern Africa). The woman is the pillar of the household. Everyone (and this includes her husband or any other person who would be living under her roof